Sidehill gang-plow.



G. 8: E. G. YOUNG.

SIDBHILL GANG PLOW.

APPLIOATION FILED MAYZ, 190s.

929,070. Patnted July 27, 1909.

5 SHEETS-SHEET 1 WITNESSES: INVENTORS,

. M Q ATTORNE C. & E. G. YOUNG.

SIDEHILL GANG PLOW.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1908.

929,070, Patented July 27, 1909.

5 SHEETS-SHEET 2,

WITNESSES: INVENTORS,

m W9. ATTORNEY.

C. & E. G. YOUNG.

SIDEHILL GANG PLOW.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZ. 190s.

Patented July 27, 1909.

5 SHEETSBHEET 3.

IN V EN TORS,

By K. 4. y

.1 TTORNE Y.

G. & E. G. YOUNG.

SIDEHILL GANG PLOW.

APPLIOATION FILED MAYZ, 1908.

929,070. I Patented July 27, 1909.

5 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

( A TTORNE Y.

G. &- E. G. YOUNG.

SIDEHILL GANG PLOW.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 2. 1908..

Patented July 27, 1909.

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CHESTER YOUNG AND EDWIN G. YOUNG, OF LIVERMORE,'OALIFORNIA.

SIDEHILL GANG-PROV].

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented-J'uIly-27, 1909.

Application filed Kay 2, 1908. Serial No. 430,484.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHESTER YOUNG and EDWIN G. YOUNG, citizens of the a United States, residing at Livermore, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sidehill Gang-Blows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a side hill plow, and the object of the invention is to rov-ide such a plow comprising a gang of disks of any number.

In plowing on hill sides, unless the plow can travel continuousl in the same direction entirely around t e hill, the direction of the low must be reversed at each arrival at the im itsof the plowing. Therefore, in so plowing, with the ordinary shear plow, in one half of the lands the soil is turned uphill, Such plowing is imperfect, for the following reasons: In beginning the plowing, the first set of furrows which are plowed out are not plowed as deep and as thoroughly as the rest. After the first set of furrows, that part of the ground which the lowman turns u hill is not turned over as we 1 as that part w rich is turned downhill. Also, in turning uphill the rear end of the plow slides downhill, leaving a small strip of unplowed land between each furrow. Again, in plowing each land, there is formed the full length of the land, a back furrow, raised above the surface of the surrounding soil, and a dead furrow, which leaves a ditch, which is not thoroughly filled up by the subse uent harrowings. Also, in turning uphill, t e farmer has to swing his team farther into the part which is plowed, making it harder on theteam. At one end of the land, the team has an uphill pull and at the other end a downhill pull, making it harder on the team.

. Again, in plowing on a hill side, the steeper parts of the hill work up faster than the more gentle slopes, makin the team do considerable -uand down ill pulling. With the side h' ploy, b plowing back and forth on making it much easier on the team.

the low pla es t e plowing can be kept level The object of the resent invention is to provide means where y the land is all turned downhill, leaving a surface with no dead furrows or back furrows.

The scientific way to plow is to turn the;

ground completely over so that the grass is:

buried beneath the soil. By doing so, the gases formed by the rottin of the grass are retained in the soil, as we as the non-gaseous products of decomposition. It is also advisable many years to low the land drg before the rains com'e, wh' e the land is har The disk plow is the only plow able to do this work.

A disk .plow which cuts a given width of the ground requires less pull from 'a team than any plow, cutting the same width, that drags through the ground with a shear and a mold board. Also it turns the. round over better than any other low, w en turning downhill or on the leve but the disk plow does poorer work turnin uphill than any other plow, so that any armer who has to turn his land uphill prefers a heavier and otherwise poorer, plow to do his work in preference to a disk plow. He is also unable to do dry plowing for the same reasons. With our improved reversible-disk side hill plow there is no necessity of using the poorer and heavier plows, or of putting off the plowing until the rains come.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of our improved side hill gang broken plan view of the draft frame; Fig. 8v

is a vertical section of the line 8-8 of 7'; Fig. 9 is a plan view of the gang frame; ig. 10 is a sectlon on the line l010 of Fig. 9.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates the two furrow wheels, and 2 the land wheel of our improved plow. The furrow wheels rotate on axles 3 bent laterall" from the bottom of swivel posts 4, being a so bent slightly downward therefrom, so that the furrow wheels are slightly inclined to the vertical, and thereby hold the plow against movement uphill, the furrow wheels being always on the lower side of the plow in plowing. The land wheel 2 is mounted upon an axle 5 bent out,' at right angles, from its swivel post 6, which can turn freely. Said swivel posts 4, 6, are adapted to-slide vertically in earings 7, 8, secured on a wheel frame, and can turn only by operating levers, as hereinafter described.

The wheel frame comprises a semi-circular bar 9 and a thin diametral bar 10 arran ed with its edges in avertical plane, its endsbeing bent at right an les and bolted to the ends of the semi-circu ar bar-9. It also comrises a central radial bar 11 bent upward at its inner end and secured to a central pivot block 12, said bar 11 being secured near its outer end to a chordal bar 13, the latter being bent downward, at the middle and secured as shown at 14,120, the semi-circular bar 9. The end of the central radial barcarries a roller 17, against which moves the outer side of a s ental internal rack 18 hereinafter more fu y described. Secured also to said pivot block 12, are two diverging radial bars 19, substantially midway between the central radialbar 11 and the diametral bar 10, the outer ends of said diverging bars being bent downward and secured to the under side of the semi-circular bar. One of these diverging radial bars 19 is connected by a bar 20 to the top of the chordal bar 13. To said diverging radial arms are secured inwardly extending guides 21 between which and the arms the hereinafter mentioned segmental external rack 22 moves. The bearing 8 for the swivel post 6 of the land wheel 2 is secured upon a short late 23 extending inward, below said central bar, from the semi-circular bar, and said swivel post 6 forms a pivot for a pinion 25 above said bearing 8. Upon said semicircular bar 9, near its ends, are formed two inclined lanes orcams 26, rising from their outer en s and forming shoulders at their inner ends, to form stops for the draft frame, and also to form cams for the latches, as hereinafter described.

The draft frame comprises a tongue 27 having a de ending draft bar 28 formed with a number 0 holes 29 to vary the point of attachment thereto, said depending bar being braced to the horizontal tongue 27 by a brace 30, a segmental internal rack 18 having an angular extension of about 120, and two oblique braces 31 connecting said tongue with said rack. The frame is also rovided with two rollers 32 adapted to ro against the outer edge of the semi-circular bar 9 and one 33 adapted to roll against the inner edge of said bar9. The tongue 27 moves over the semi-circular bar 9, being arrested at either end by the shoulder formed at the inner end of the inclined plane or cam-26 at that end of the bar. The tongue is also provided at its inner end with raised studs 34, which are adapted to engage notches 36 of a latch 37 at either end of the gang frame, as hereinafter described. The rack '18 meshes with the pinion 25, and, as the draft frame turns about the center of the wheel frame, the segmental internal rack 18 rotates the pinion 25.

- The gang frame com rises a segmental ex-' ternal rack 22 exten ed angularly about 120, engaging the inner side of the pinion. Said rack is secured at the center to one end of a central bar 38, whieh extends beneath lower ends bearings 44 for the shafts 45 of plow disks 46, each disk being provided with a suitable mold board 47. Pivoted on a vertical pivot 48 on the central'bar 11 is a seat frame 49 carrying a seat 50. Said frame has secured thereto a segmental rack 51 which meshes with a segmental rack 52 secured by bars 53 to the gang frame. Thus, as the gang plow turns, the seat frame 49 turns in the opposite direction, thus shifting the seat so that the driver sitting thereon faces in the proper direction. I I

At the ends of the transverse beams 39 and the oblique bars 40 where they are connected are ivoted two angular latches 37 connected by inks 55 with angular levers 56 pivoted upon the oblique bars 40, said levers being sufficiently broad at the top to be adapted to be depressed b the foot, and between said levers 56 and t e tie bars 41 are interposed coiled springs 57, normally tending to raise said levers and depress the latches 37. Either latch 37 is adapted to engage the two studs 34 on the tongue 27, and it is in order to raise said latch, to permit it to engage said studs, that the cams or inclined planes 26 are provided, so that, as the tongue approaches the shoulder of a cam, the latch 37 upon the gang frame slides up its inclined surface to such a level that it will drop and engage said studs. To permit the tongue and draft frame to be turned relatively to the wheel frame, the driver releases the latch by depressing with his foot the broad end of the lever 56. An important feature of the invention is that by means of the latches 37 and the studs 34 the gang frame is locked direct to the draft frame and not through the interposition of the wheel frame. Thereby all strain is taken from the wheel frame, and the )arts can be made lighter without injurious y diminishing their strength.

The farmer begins the plowing at the bot- I After completin any ternal rack 18 rotates the pinion25, which in ued movement-of the horses, through the remainderof one-half of a revolution, now moves the wheel frame around untilthe tongue extends reversely to its former direction. This brings the disks into proper position for plow- 11g in the reverse directlon. But the furrow eels are now at an angle with their proper directions for travel. they will travel in the line of the plowing,

there is provided a long upright lever 60, pivoted at 61 u on the wheel frame, and a second shorter ever 62. A segment rack 63 is secured to the lever 60 and is used for adjusting the shorter lever 62, a fixed segment rack 64 beingused for adjusting the long lever 60. With all segment racks the usual latch bars 66 are provided. Both of said levers 60 and 62 are connected by links 67 with arms 68 keyed to the swivel posts 4 of the furrow wheels. By operating the long upright lever 60, both of said furrow wheels are turned in unison, so as to travel in the line of lowing. However, if desired, the forward w eel can be turned into the line of the plowing, and the rear wheel at a slight angle thereto. This is accomplished by actuating the shorter lever 62, inde endently of the lever 60, to adjust one whee l relatively to the other.

Before reversing the direction of plowing it is necessary to raise the disks out of the ground. For this ur ose' means are rovided for raising bot t e gang frame an the wheel frame. These means com rise a long upright lever 70 connected by a mk 71 with an inclined bell crank lever 72 ivoted on an upright 73 secured upon the iametral bar 10, said lever 72 being connected by a link 74 with a bell crank lever 75 pivoted on a yokeshaped upright 76 supported upon the central bar 20, said bell crank lever 75 being also connected by a link 77 with a collar 78 loosely secured around the swivel post 6 of the land wheel. Said long upright lever 70 is also riveted to the two segmental racks 80 of two short upright levers 81. Each short lever 81 is connected by a link 82 to a bell crank lever 83 pivoted on an arm 84 extending obliquely upward from the main frame and connected to a collar 85 around a swivel post 4 of a furrow wheel. By actuating the main lever 70 the gang frame and wheel frame can be raised from all three wheels.

Toadjust them so pendentl raised or lowered, relatively thereto, y operating one or both of the two short upright levers 81.

I In order to permit of the whole apparatus,

and the driver supported therem, being easily raised b the power applied by the driver to the ever 70, theie are provided springs 86 which partly support the weight -ofsaid apparatus u on the respective swivel posts of the whee s, and thus reduce the wei ht to be lifted by the power applied.

eclaim:. 1. In an apparatus ofthe character described, the combination of a'gang frame,

bearings thereon for disk plows, a wheel frame to which the gang frame is pivotally attached, a draft frame movable relatively to the wheel frame only about the same pivotal axis as that ofthe gang frame thereon, and an operative connection between said draft frame and gang frame whereb the ang 1 frame is shifted by the movement 0 said raft frame relatively to said wheel frame, substantially as described. I

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a wheel frame, a gang frame pivotally mounted. u on the wheel frame, bearings therein for dis plows, saidwheel frame being formed with a guide in an arc of a circle about said pivotal center, a draft frame provided with rollers engaging said guide, whereby said draft frame is movable relatively to the wheel frame, but only about said pivotal axis as center, and an operative connection between said draft frame and gan frame, whereby the ang frame is shifted y 'a movement of said draft frame relatively to said wheel frame, substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a wheel frame, a gang frame and a draft frame both rotatable about a commoncenter on the wheel frame, means whereby the rotation of the draft frame rotates the gang frame, said gang frame having two parts adapted alternately at the ends of its rotary movement to enga e a part of the draft frame in the line of draft,

sald line of draft passing through said common center of rotation, substantially as described.

of the gang frame, substantially as described.

5. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a wheel frame,

a rotary gan frame, a rotary draft frame, means where y a rotary movement of the draft frame produces a rotary movement of the gang frame, and means independently of the first named means for 1oekini either side of the gang frame directly to the raft frame, at either end of its rotary movement, substantially as described. I

6. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a wheel frame a draft frame, movable relatively to sai wheel frame, a gang frame OPBIBJJIVGIY connected to said draft frame to be moved thereby, a seat frame supportedby the wheel frame, and means whereby the seat frame turns with the draft frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set o ur hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHESTER YOUNG. EDWIN G. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

R. G. SWEET, M. C. CALLAGHAN. 

